ALYSSA SALOMON

Since receiving a camera on her eighth birthday, Alyssa C. Salomon has been testing how photography collects and remakes her favorite parts of the world. She has been employing nineteenth century photographic chemistries on handmade surfaces for more than two decades to exploit their inherent potential for romantic abstraction and physical control. Candela featured Salomon’s project ANIMAL LAND in a spring 2017 solo exhibition. Salomon’s work is in a number of public and private collections including those of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and The Valentine Museum. She has been recognized with awards including two VMFA Professional Artist Fellowships, exhibited nationally and in Europe, and reproduced in print. Salomon apprenticed with daguerreotypist Bob Shlaer, and holds degrees from Kenyon College (BA) and University of Chicago (MBA). She teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University, Penland School of Crafts and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. She lives and works along the Chickahominy River cypress swamp, not far from where Pocahontas saved John Smith. Salomon is a compulsive, albeit late rising, bird watcher, a frequent kayaker, and very happy chicken keeper.